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@sind tiene @strut @Wire f BENJAMIN B. HILL ANDQJOHN R. HILL, orWORCESTER, MASSA- eHUsEr'rs.

. Letters Patent No. 92,967, dated .Tuly 27, 1869.

. CORN-Poppen The Schedule referred tu 'in these Lettera Patent andmaking part o f the same.

To whom tt ma/y concern:

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN B.HILL and JOHN HILL, bothof the ,city andcounty of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain newand useful Improvements inUorn-Poppers; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a fullyyclear, and exact description of the same, duereferenceflbeing had to theaooompanying drawings, in whiehlh i Figure lshows a side view of our improvelipopper.

Figure 2 shows the form f the wire 'fettnitlfgthe guard, hinge, andhandle. y

Our invention applies to the formhof poppers shown, which are usuallymadeL of wire cloth; and consists in carrying the wire A, which formsthe guard en the bottom, up and through the binding, at a, and thereforming a loopv or eye, S, making a hinge for; theztop or cover, andthen giving itsueh form as te atlneh to a handle, as, when two ofthemare used, they can be brought together, and driven into a wooden handle.

We are aware that guards or strengthening-wires lunderneath are not new,and also that wires from the hinge for .the cover, and the handle ortang, of one 'and the same continuous piece of wire, when' constructed.and operating in the manner and for the purposes above set forth'anddescribed. A BENJ. B`. HILL.

Witnesses: JOHN RfHILL..

YJAMES G. ARNALL,

' A. GREENE.

